Finger ring



July 3, 1928. 7 1,675,715

D. LIFTIN FINGER RING Filed Feb'. '2 1926 Fig.2. f 9; f

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Patented July 3, 1928.

UNITED STATES DANIEI. LIr'rIN, or New YORK, N. Y.

FINGER RING.

Application filed February 26, 1926. Serial No. 90,828.

\Vhile applicable to finger rings generally, my invention is designed more especially for use in conjunction with the type thereof designated, in the trade as wedding rings, having peripheral surfaces embel lished with diamond setting; and my object is to simulate such peripheral embellishment by the representation of diamond setting formed directly in and of the metal of which the rin is composed, substantially as described an claimed specifically, whereby the metallic sheen and luster is utilized in attaining radiant reflection essentially equivalent to that afforded by diamond setting, all as hereinafter fully set forth.

In the accompanying drawings I illustrate a practical embodiment of the essential features of my invention in a finger ring of the character designated, although I do not limit myself thereto, nor to the identical configuration of imitation diamond setting shown by way of exemplification, since changes may-be made in minor details, and equivalent expedients resorted to in the simulation of other forms of diamond setting with essentially like results, and without departing from the spirit and intent of my invention in this respect.

With this understanding:.

Fig. 1, represents an enlarged perspective View of a ring, the peripheral surface of which is embellished with the fac-similes of five diamond settings of a well known type;

Fig. 2 is a detail view, ona still larger scale, of a portion of the periphery of the ringshown in Fig. 1; i

Fig. 3, is a transverse section thereof taken upon plane of line 3--3, Fig. 2; and

Fig. 4, is a diagonal section taken upon plane of line M, Fig. 2.

R, represents a finger ring of the wedding? type, made preferably 'of'white gold, platinum, or other suitable metal adapted to high superficial polish, and to thereby af ford a relatively high degree of refractive light power, to simulate the sheen and lustre of a cut diamond, the form of the latter shown for convenience of illustration being of well known brilliant cut,-t, indicating the table, and f, f, the facets of the imitav tion crown setting, of which 9, indicates the girdle, p, represents the clasping prongs, by which the stone is. usually secured in position, and m, the milligram border, so called, usually employed to represent the peripheral subdivisions of the ring, although this latter is not an essential feature.

As will be seen by reference more particularly to Figs. 3 and 4, of the drawings, all these parts named are integral with and 6 formed of the metal of which the ring is constituted, the formation bein effected either manually by suitable tools, or by dies, analogous to methods and means well known in the art.

What-I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. As an improved article of manufacture,

a ring comprising a circlet having therein cuts orming facets in imitation of a cut gem and means forming imitations of clamping prongs, the whole giving in effect the appearanceof a setting containing a cut diamond.

2. As an article of manufacture, a ring comprising a metal circlet having a group of symmetrically arranged, contiguous, an-

" gular sided reflecting surfaces formed on the metal of the-ring and extending at an angle to each other, the whole presenting in effect the appearance of a cut gem set in the ring.

3. As an article of manufacture, a ring comprising a metal circlet having a group of symmetrically arranged, contiguous, angular sided surfaces formed on the metal of the ring to present the appearance of a cut gem, said surfaces including one relatively large substantially flat central surface completely surrounded by side surfaces extend ing' at a receding angle thereto, said central surface and side surfaces serving to reflect light and simulate the appearance of a cut gem.

DANIEL LIFTIN. 

